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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1961
Page
5
The Atlantic FFA tractor rodeo team placed second behind Irwin at the Legion celebration rodeo in Irwin on Monday. Melvin Tessman ranked fourth among 17 participants, as noted by Norman Vandehaar, Atlantic High School vocational agriculture instructor.
Delbert Westphaten Charles Heiken and Allen Fudge are listed on the Atlantic team alongside Tess Mean in the recent lineup.
Five year old Darrell Kirchhoff son of Delbert and Mrs Kirchhoff of Rt and fell from a bicycle Saturday fracturing his left arm in the accident
Susan, daughter of Mr and Mrs Kevin Hitpas of 701 Birch Street, underwent surgery at the local hospital.
A list of patients admitted, remaining, transferred, and discharged at Atlantic Memorial Hospital. Names include Donna Mavis, Herluf Hansen, Nancy Shellberg, Phillip Hetrick, Roy Martens, Jane Kopp, and many others with addresses in Atlantic, Wiota, Massena, Anita, Walnut, and nearby towns. Several transfers to University hospitals in Iowa City and an Omaha hospital are noted.
Elk Horn Ed Hoegh is under treatment at Clarkson hospital in Omaha. Richard Petersen underwent surgery Monday at Harlan hospital.
Mr and Mrs Melvin Zimmerman and family returned from Correctionville after funeral services for their nephew Gary Edwards 16 son of Elmer Edwards Vermilion South Dakota. Gary drowned Wednesday while swimming with his brother Larry 15 in the Missouri river.
Dr Gilbert McDowall 86 a longtime Gladbrook physician died Sunday night at an Iowa City hospital. Funeral services are set for Wednesday with burial in Gladbrook. He practiced medicine here for 53 years and was a prominent local figure.
A collection of brief items from Atlantic including local births, funerals, and visits. Notes mention Nancy Herbert, daughter of Mr and Mrs Wayne Herbert of Atlantic, and a visit to Atwater Minnesota for a sister-in-law's funeral. Also cited are hog and lamb market results and community happenings at Snyder and Snyder home, and a Rex Pharmacy travel advert.
Rev. Allen Jahsmann, general secretary of Sunday schools for the Missouri Synod, arrives to lead services at Zion Lutheran. He earned a year of post doctoral psychiatry study at Menninger's in Topeka starting July 5 and has a church leave of absence. Rainfall from a local storm totaled 1.04 inches with hail damage in western Cass county.
The Rev Harold A Smith officiated at 2 PM at Roland funeral home for Minnie E Litterst widow of Carl Litterst. Don Young with Mrs Irvin W Mueller sang Rock of Ages and Beyond the Sunset. Casket bearers were Claude Lang Otto Hartkopf E G Pagel Ray Coker Fritz Hansen and M A Preston. Interment followed at Atlantic cemetery.
Iowa Attorney General Evan Hultman said the constitutionality of the 1961 Legislation's control over State Board of Control salaries will be decided by the courts. Sen. George OMalley asked for a ruling after the Legislative Interim Committee set an $18 000 annual cap on professional personnel salaries at Iowa mental institutions, prompting protests over potential program disruption.
The attorney general's office can issue an opinion on a bill's constitutionality before passage as legal counsel, but once enacted only the courts can determine constitutionality.
A continued report notes a very slight rise in the cost of living index and a minor change in spendable earnings since May 1960. The data imply only small shifts in purchasing power for households.
Prices show gains in some sectors while meat costs ease. Beef pork and lamb drop, eggs fall 3.3 percent despite government purchases, and dairy prices trend lower as poultry competition keeps prices down.
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